Traditional food for Valentine's Day in China.
1, creature
The custom of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Cao Xian, Pingyuan and other places is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three jiaozi respectively. After begging for wisdom, they got together to eat jiaozi. It is said that they were rich, good at sewing and got married early.
Step 2: Suitable fruit
On this day, all parts of Zhejiang make various small objects with flour, which are called "proper fruits" after being fried in oil. In the evening, appropriate fruits, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the yard. Proper fruit is the most famous holiday food in Chinese Valentine's Day. Proper fruit, also called "Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing boy" and "eating fruit patterns", and the patterns include holding incense and winning prizes.
3, clever bud noodles
Besides eating proper fruits, in some places, on the seventh day of July, we eat smart bud noodles. To make smart sprouted bean sprouts, seven days in advance, choose a small bowl of mungbean that is not moth-eaten, clean it, spread it on the plate, cover it with wet gauze to keep out the sun, put it on the kang, and spray water several times a day to keep it moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, they can be made into handmade noodles, boiled in a pot and pulled through with cold water; Then put oil in a hot pan, stir-fry diced meat, stir-fry onion and ginger, stir-fry soy sauce and vinegar, stir-fry mung bean sprouts, add water to boil, and then add salt and monosodium glutamate to make bean sprout soup; Grab the noodles into a bowl and pour them with bean sprout soup.
4. Cloud surface
Jiaodong people eat proper fruit on Tanabata, and Linyi people eat cloud noodles on Tanabata. If you eat cloud flour, it must be made of dew, and you can get a good taste when you eat it.
5. Rice noodles
Old Nanjing people also have a unique custom of celebrating Qixi: eating glutinous rice. Jiangmi tiao is a snack of Han nationality, which is made by steaming glutinous rice flour and bean flour in a stew pot, beating them in a stone mortar with a stick, drying them in the sun, frying them in oil, and finally dipping them in red bean paste such as plum blossom, pine blossom and sesame seed.
6. Su Qiao
There are also many folk pastry shops that like to make some crisp candy with the image of Weaver Girl, commonly known as "capable people" and "skillful cakes", and they are also called "sending talented people" when they are sold. This custom has spread in some areas so far.
7. melons and fruits
In this special festival of Tanabata, melons and fruits are of course essential! There are also many changes in the melons and fruits eaten on Tanabata. Some people like to carve melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or draw "flower melons" with embossed patterns on the surface of melon skins.
8. Chicken
In order to express people's hope that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a happy family life every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, every family will kill a chicken on July 7, which means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on this night, and if there is no rooster to announce the dawn, they will never part.
9.abiko
"Worship the Weaver Girl" on Tanabata is an important activity for girls and young women. Sacrifices include tea, wine, fresh fruit and so on. And Wuzi (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) is even more indispensable. After burning incense and praying silently, these offerings became their snack food.
10, mung bean sprouts
In Guangzhou, before the festival comes, girls make good use of colored paper, medulla tetrapanacis, ropes and so on. Advance, and knit all kinds of fancy gadgets. They also put rice seeds and mung beans in small boxes and soaked them in water to make them germinate. When the bud grows to more than two inches long, it is used to worship the gods, which is called "rice for worshipping the immortals" and "rice for worshipping the gods".
What activities are there for Valentine's Day in China?
acupuncture
In fact, this is also the earliest way to be clever. Even the earliest activity in this activity began in the Han Dynasty. Today, many people still like it so fast.
Spiders should be smart.
On Tanabata, at night, even this spider is active, and at this time, some bones are directly placed in the courtyard of the hall, and then spiders are used to weave webs. If there is a lot of honey, it will be smarter.
Bai kuixing
Worship Kuixing, in fact, is mainly the direct worship of this day, and even the exam that can make you more arrogant and better.
Needle throwing and skill test
In fact, the practice of pricking needles is a direct change of fax, which is also a popular custom in China on Valentine's Day in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also a custom made mainly at noon.
Ye Lan Douqiao
In fact, this game is mainly a game in a court in the Han Dynasty. The five color lines are directly accompanied, and in this case, it is an activity to learn this directly. This is mainly a question of learning this directly.
Seed search
In fact, it is mainly an activity a few days before Qixi, in which some mung beans or some wheat are put directly in the bowl, so that they can be directly born or even borrowed.
For Niu Qingsheng.
In fact, for Tanabata, it is said that it is the birthday of the cow, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl all have girls' affairs, and it is also directly because there is a sacrifice to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Drying books and clothes
In addition to the above activities, in fact, more and more people like to have books and clothes to dry on Tanabata, which actually means that it is similar to showing love in a circle of friends or drying their babies, so it is mainly for wealth.
Sacrifice grinding and drink music.
In fact, these are small toys of some children in the past, which are directly related to more children's love to play.
Fairy Tales of Valentine's Day in China
Valentine's Day in China is always associated with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four folk love legends in China.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a clever and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang. His parents died early, so he had to live with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law, Ma Shi, is vicious, often abusing him and forcing him to do a lot of work. One autumn, his sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle and gave him nine cows, but he was told to wait until he had ten cows, so the cowherd had no choice but to drive them out of the village.
The cowherd drove the cow to the mountains alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forest, he sat under the tree and was sad. He doesn't know when he can drive ten cows home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. When he learned what had happened to him, he smiled and said to him, "Don't be sad. There is a sick old cow in Funiu Mountain. You go and feed it well When the old cow is ready, just wait. "
The cowherd walked a long way over the mountains and finally found the sick old cow. Seeing that the old cow was very ill, he went to bundle the grass for the old cow. After feeding for three days in a row, the old cow looked up and told him that he was a great fairy in the sky, but he was sent to heaven because he broke his leg and could not move. His injury needs to be washed with toilet water for a month. Cowherd carefully took care of old Niu Yi for a month, picking flowers for the old cow during the day and sleeping beside the old man at night. After the old cow recovered, the cowherd happily drove ten cows home.
After returning home, my sister-in-law is still not good to him. She hurt him several times and was saved by the old cow. Finally, my sister-in-law got angry and drove the cowherd out of the house. The cowherd only wanted the old cow to accompany him.
One day, the weaver girl in the sky played games with the fairies and took a bath in the river. With the help of the old cow, the cowherd got to know the Weaver Girl, and they hit it off. Later, the Weaver Girl sneaked into the world and became the wife of the Cowherd. The weaver girl also distributed wild silkworms brought from the sky to everyone, teaching them to raise silkworms, spin silk and weave bright silks and satins.
After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, a man plowed and a woman weaved, giving birth to two children, a man and a woman, and the family lived happily. But the good times didn't last long, and it was soon known to the Emperor of Heaven that the heavenly queen herself came down to earth and forcibly brought the Weaver Girl back to heaven, and the loving couple separated from each other.
There is no way for Cowherd to go to heaven, or the old cow told him that he could wear shoes with his own skin after he died. Cowherd did as the old cow said, put on shoes made of cowhide and took his children with him. On the verge of catching up, I'm afraid the queen mother pulled out the golden hairpin on her head, and a choppy Tianhe appeared. Cowherd and Weaver Girl are separated on both sides, and they can only cry each other. Their loyal love touched the magpies, and thousands of magpies flew to build a magpie bridge, where the cowherd and the weaver girl met. The Queen Mother has no choice but to allow them to meet on July 7th every year.
Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars and look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray to God that they will be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl and that they will have a happy marriage, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.